Friday, September 01, 2006

Dress making (part 2?)

We visited the Red Cross offices in Machakos. Our friend who managed the well project works there on two large aid projects for total communities in remote parts of that district.

One of the training facilities at the office is a tailoring school. This hand-made chart was on the wall (detail shown). All of the sewing machines are manually run (foot-treadle).

It's amazing what can be done when resources are limited.
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